"Whew! ...”

Konishi Shibei, who was still extremely vicious just now, was forcibly pried open by the Ming army and broke off his teeth one by one with a vice. That Deng Guandao looked at Xiao Xi's extremely distorted face due to pain sympathetically, and shook his head and sighed: "The tooth is gone, and it will be difficult to eat in the future." In this way, this pipe belt will do good deeds again, inlay you with a few iron teeth, and even chew iron broad beans in one bite after wrapping you. Come, go and take twenty nails for nailing the planks of the ship, and pull out a tooth, and put an iron nail into the hole of the tooth! ”

"Woo!"

Konishi Shibei, who had already been in pain with his facial features shifted, was finally completely collapsed by such a cruel and perverted torture. Because his hands and feet were firmly tied, he could only flutter and dodge desperately on the slippery deck like a caught fish, and he had long lost the majesty of "Lord Admiral". And more than 20 pirates who were captured by each ship witnessed all this, and they were so frightened that they cried and desperately begged the Ming army for mercy.

It was only at this time that Deng Guandao sank his face, stepped on Konishi Shibei's chest with one foot, and said coldly: "Dead devil, who do you think you are?" Just now, the Deputy Admiral asked you if you don't recruit, you have to be honest if you have to clean up one by one, right? I advise you to confess quickly, so that you will not suffer any more flesh and skin. If you still want to be stubborn to the end, this pipe belt has been a brocade guard, and you can't think of the punishment, I will have hundreds of kinds, which will let you try them one by one. How, recruit or not? ”

The rest is simple. In addition to the interrogation of Konishi Shibei, the other pirates were also interrogated one by one, and their confessions corroborated each other, and what they got was the information that the Ming army wanted. After the trial, Deng Guandao presented the collated confession to the deputy admiral of the fleet, and this general was naturally the deputy admiral of the North Sea Fleet, the commander-in-chief of the operation, Li Yunhao.

And during this time, Lee Yun-ho was not idle, he had already led all eighteen warships of this fleet to quietly leave this sea area and march towards the Togara Strait between the Ryukyu Kingdom and the island of Kyushu. As for Zheng Zhilong's stronghold on Beida Island, it was captured by the Ming army three days ago. All the male pirates were beheaded, and the poor women, the Ming army let them survive and left them to fend for themselves on the island. Anyway, the Ming army has all disguised themselves as pirates, and they are not afraid of these women leaking the news.

This beautiful sneak attack battle is only the first step of the Sea Wolf's operation, because several officers from the Zheng clan know that Zheng Zhilong's smuggling route is the only one. The next step is to see if we can get valuable information from the captives.

And the content of the confessions of Konishi Shibei and others also made Li Yunhao overjoyed. Although this Konishi Shibei is not a very important role in Zheng Zhilong's group, he is also a small leader and knows all aspects of Zheng's "maritime empire". The next thing Li Yunhao had to do was to return to Dengzhou as soon as possible, first, to replenish supplies, repair damaged ships, and replace casualties, and second, to hand over Konishi and other prisoners to Qi Xianzong for disposal, and to study the next battle plan.

At the same time that the Beihai Fleet was riding the wind and waves and playing the Kai class, in Taiwan, a treasure island more than 2,000 miles to the west, and the "Chaowang Mansion" of Longgang across the sea from the Penghu Islands, Zheng Zhilong, the leader of the big pirates and the head of the Zheng family, knew nothing about it. He was still indulging in his recent complacency, and was now holding a twelve-year-old Japanese singer and celebrating with his right-hand men.

Zheng Zhilong, whose real name is Zheng Yiguan, is a native of Nan'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province. The Zheng family he was born in is not only one of the six great families of martial arts, but also has long been engaged in sea smuggling, so the financial resources are the most abundant among the six great families.

In Zheng Zhilong's generation, Zheng Zhilong himself is not only strong in martial arts, but also more "ambitious" than his parents, and his tentacles on the sea extend farther. To the east, he had ties to many of Japan's daimyos, even the shogunate. In order to make it easier for him to smuggle himself in Japan, he not only recognized Li Dan, another pirate leader who was quite powerful in Japan, as his father-in-law, but also married Sadako, the daughter of the Tagawa clan, the lord of the Hizen Province Hizen Domain.

To the south, it secretly communicated with Western colonists such as the Portuguese, Dutch, and Spaniards. Zheng Zhilong once went to Macao in person, and spared no expense to buy weapons such as franc cannons and bird guns from the Portuguese, and learned navigation and naval warfare knowledge from the Portuguese. Portugal, the Netherlands, and Spain were enemies of each other, and Zheng Zhilong was caught between them, and no one wanted to offend him, causing the Zheng family to fall to other forces. When he was full-fledged, with the strong strength of more than a thousand armed merchant ships, no country would dare to touch him.

As for the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong used the clan and the countryside as a link to recruit a large number of right-hand men. The most important of these are, of course, his two younger brothers, Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao. In addition, there are eighteen people, including Zheng Xing, Zheng Ming, Zheng Cai, Chen Hui, Yang Geng, and Zhong Bin, collectively known as "Eighteen Zhi", all of whom are core members of his maritime empire.

In the past, the government also knew that Zheng Zhilong was engaged in smuggling activities, but the naval division was too weak to dare to suppress it, and it was impossible to suppress people at all. Later, he simply changed the suppression to Fu and named Zheng Zhilong as the chief officer of the Fujian Navy Division. Zheng Zhilong is also happy to "launder", on the one hand, relying on bribery to open up joints, making smuggling from the coastal areas of Fujian more convenient and obtaining amazing profits; On the other hand, it also exempted the imperial court from sending troops to suppress it.

But Zheng Zhilong, as a giant thief, is also extremely alert, and no one believes him in his life. In order to ensure his own safety, he left the mainland long ago and opened up a port on the island of Taiwan as his "capital".

This port is opposite to the Penghu Islands across the sea, and was originally the first area for mainland immigrants to arrive and explore. Zheng Zhilong thought that the water depth of the port here was deep, there was a large fishing ground outside the port, the farmland was also very fertile, and the back of the jade mountain could be attacked and defended, so he chose this place as his base camp. Today's port wharf, there are hundreds of ships docked every day, from the Ming Dynasty, Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, the South Seas and even the Western world of all kinds of goods, a steady stream of loading and unloading distribution here, making this place develop rapidly, now there are tens of thousands of people.

The naval fleet on which Zheng Zhilong relied for survival was mainly stationed in the Penghu Islands. Among them, the "treasure ship" is the most proud work of Zheng Zhilong's life, which was built by gathering thousands of craftsmen and spending five years. With this flagship and a huge fleet, even his former "teacher" Portuguese, Zheng Zhilong, is no longer in his eyes.

It is said that a pirate mixed with Zheng Zhilong's share is already the pinnacle. But there is a saying that "people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants", and Zheng Zhilong is the same. At this time, he was drinking wine, suddenly stopped the wine glass thoughtfully, and muttered for a while: "Zhu Youzhen... What the hell are you doing now? ”